Sean Parker and Daniel Ek on Apple, Playlists and the End of the CD: The D10 Highlights (Video)

CD’s aren’t cool. You know what’s cool? Playlists. May 30, 2012 at 5:07 pm PT

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Director, Spotify

Love Napster or hate Napster, which Parker co-founded at 19 years old, had a profound impact on how we share (or don’t share) information. He went on to found contact service Plaxo and later hooked up with a little-known start-up called Facebook to become its founding president. In a move back to music, he next launched social video company Airtime with Napster partner Shawn Fanning.

Posts With Sean Parker

Napster, the Movie

in Media on January 19 at 4:18 pm PT

Featuring Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, brought to you by Bill from “Bill & Ted’s.”
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Kill’ Em All! Then Do Business With Them.

Lars just left my house in NYC. The litigation between us in 2000 is now a distant memory.

– Napster co-founder Sean Parker, talking about Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, via a 4:03 am Twitter post. Metallica had sued the file-sharing service, but now Parker and the band are business partners: Yesterday Metallica announced that it is distributing its music on Spotify, where Parker is an investor.

“Like Eating Glass”: Sean Parker on Airtime’s Bumpy Launch, Exec Departures and More

in Media on October 2, 2012 at 4:00 am PT

The painful progress of the much-hyped and well-funded video site.
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Free Music

… what Spotify teaches us most of all is that there are bands we think we like whose records we won’t listen to even when they’re free …

– Jimmy Guterman, via Twitter

Airtime Hits Up Celebs Again (Because That Worked So Well the Last Time!) for Promo Video

in Social on July 17, 2012 at 11:42 am PT

Airtime is taking the celebrity route again with a new online video ad to promote its fledgling video social discovery service, featuring cameos by Kurt Russell, Ronnie Lott and MC Hammer.
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Spotify’s Sean Parker and Daniel Ek Make Music — And Some Noise: The Full D10 Interview (Video)

in D10 on June 19, 2012 at 5:55 am PT

They stream the songs that make the whole world sing.
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Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning’s Airtime Finally Launches Today

in Social on June 5, 2012 at 7:30 am PT

Airtime, the next act from Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, launches to the public today.
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Backstage With Aaron Sorkin, Reid Hoffman and Sean Parker: The KatieCam Highlight Reel

in D10 on June 2, 2012 at 6:44 am PT

What kind of music do you listen to when you write “The West Wing”? Katie Boehret gets that scoop and more when she catches up with D10 guests, offstage but on camera.
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Bob Pittman to Join Board of Soon-to-Launch Airtime

in Media on June 1, 2012 at 8:01 am PT

Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman will join the board of Airtime, the soon-to-launch video start-up from Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning.
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Day Two at D10 in Tweets and Pictures

in D10 on May 31, 2012 at 3:00 am PT

D attendees add their voices and images to the voices and images coming from the stage.
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Sean Parker and Daniel Ek on Apple, Playlists and the End of the CD: The D10 Highlights (Video)

in D10, May 30, 2012 at 5:07 pm PT

Spotify vs. the Pirates (Video)

in D10, May 30, 2012 at 3:13 pm PT

Sean Parker: Why Did Spotify Take So Long to Get Stateside? It Could Have Been Apple.

in D10, May 30, 2012 at 2:53 pm PT

Napster Founders’ Airtime to Debut June 5

in Social, May 8, 2012 at 10:52 am PT

You Know What’s Cooler Than Two Million Dollars?

AllThingsD Takes SXSW by Storm (in Pictures)

in News, March 13, 2012 at 2:46 pm PT

Al Gore and Sean Parker Blame TV and Money for Ruining Politics, and Say Social Media Ought to Fix It

in Social, March 12, 2012 at 4:42 pm PT

Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat

in D10, March 9, 2012 at 10:40 am PT

Andreessen Horowitz Funds Community Organizing Tool NationBuilder

in News, March 8, 2012 at 2:04 pm PT

Votizen Gets a Celebrity Round of Funding to Connect Social Media and Politics

in Social, February 23, 2012 at 9:21 pm PT

Why Rhapsody Is (Probably) Bigger Than Spotify — In the U.S.

in Media, January 12, 2012 at 3:00 am PT

Sean Parker and Jim Breyer Slam Silicon Valley Funding Glut

in News, November 15, 2011 at 12:53 pm PT

You Know What’s Really Cool? Spotify.

When in Doubt, Blame Scooter

What Bad Economy? Three Big Silicon Valley VCs Poised to Haul in $2B in New Fund Raising.

in News, September 8, 2011 at 6:15 am PT